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A sexy high-gloss sizzle reel for the new I Know What You Did Last Summer movie turned up the heat during Sony’s CinemaCon show in Las Vegas this evening. The follow-up to the 1997 hit features returning cast members as well as new players. Jennifer Love Hewitt is back alongside former co-star Freddie Prinze Jr. while […]

Leave it to Tom Rothman to tee up CinemaCon, ever the philosopher, with the ultimate sermon that waves the flag for moviegoing. Acknowledging the elephant in the room at this year’s confab — windows — Rothman told the Caesars Palace full of exhibs, “Cost and windows can work for us or against us. Theatrical needs […]

Sian Barbara Allen, a Golden Globe-nominated TV actress who appeared in such hits as The Waltons and L.A. Law, died today at the age of 78 in Chapel Hill, N.C. The cause of death was Alzheimer’s Disease. A prolific television performer of the ’70s and ’80s, Allen was born on July 12, 1946 in Reading, […]

While The Social Network star Jesse Eisenberg might not want be involved in the same conversations as the Facebook founder, it seems Mark Zuckerberg, on whom the protagonist/antagonist is based, has no problem continuing the association. On a recent episode of The Colin and Samir Show, whose podcast includes interviews with tech CEOs and delves […]

Sydney Sweeney is in final negotiations to star in the live-action Gundam movie coming together at Legendary, sources have confirmed to Deadline. Details as to the part Sweeney is playing are under wraps for now, as is the film’s plot. Reps for Legendary declined to comment. As we were first to tell you last fall, Sweet […]

In a 10-page comment directed to the White House Office of Science and Technology earlier this month, the Motion Picture Association said AI “can, and must, coexist with a copyright system that incentivizes the creation of original expression and protects the rights of copyright owners.” The trade group repping members Amazon Studios, Netflix, Paramount Pictures, […]

Warner Bros Discovery said Monday that it plans to add veteran tech investor Anton Levy as an independent director on its soon-to-expand board of directors. The company’s existing board, which consists of 13 directors, today approved an expansion to 14 timed to the annual shareholder meeting later this spring. The move follows a report in […]

UPDATE, 1:47 PM: A New Mexico judge has ruled that police bodycam footage or photographs of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa’s dead bodies shall remain out of the public sphere, but the couple’s autopsy reports and images of the couple’s home and animals will be released. After a hearing this morning in the Santa Fe […]

EXCLUSIVE: Hamdan Ballal and his fellow No Other Land filmmakers are thanking top members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for signing a letter that pushed AMPAS leadership to take a firmer stance condemning an attack on Ballal by Israeli settlers. Palestinian filmmakers Ballal and Basel Adra and Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham […]

The major story in Hollywood, says Jeff Goldstein, president of Global Distribution for Warner Bros. Pictures, is how expensive it’s getting to make movies and to market them to a fragmented audience even as technology sends first reactions to a film around the world in a “nanosecond.” “That’s the bigger story here,” he said on […]

Helen Mirren will soon reunite with former co-star Pierce Brosnan in Guy Ritchie’s MobLand, and though she’s a “huge fan of Pierce Brosnan, I mean massive fan,” she deemed the James Bond franchise in which he appears decidedly “not [her] thing” due to its portrayal of women. “I mean, oh my god. Obviously, he’s gorgeous […]

Bruce Glover, a prolific actor who appeared in films like Diamonds Are Forever and Chinatown and acted alongside Bette Davis and Anne Bancroft on Broadway, died at the age of 92, his son, Back to the Future actor Crispin Glover announced on Instagram. Crispin Glover shared a series of old and newer photos of his […]

Character actor Denis Arndt, who appeared in Basic Instinct, a slate of David E. Kelley shows and earned a Tony nomination for his role in Broadway’s two-hander Heisenberg, has died at the age of 86, his family announced in an obituary published Wednesday. “It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of […]

CPH:DOX has crowned winners at the latest edition of the renowned nonfiction film festival in Copenhagen. The DOX:Award, the festival’s top prize, went to Always, the directorial debut of Deming Chen. The film tells the story of a young poet, 8-year-old Youbin, who lives “deep in the lush mountains of Hunan province” in southern China. […]

Although Josh Hutcherson is preparing to survive another night at Freddy’s, he’s up for a return to his first major franchise. The Hunger Games alum recently gave fans hope that he might reprise his role as Peeta Mellark if author Suzanne Collins gives the character a worthy return in a future installment of her dystopian […]

The top brass at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences issued an apology today for not mentioning Oscar-winning No Other Land co-director Hamdan Ballan or the film by name in its initial response to his West Bank attack and detention on Monday. The note from AMPAS CEO Bill Kramer and President Janet Yang […]

Although Bill Murray has plenty of hit films to his name, there’s one role he wishes he didn’t turn down. The Oscar nominee recently revealed “one of the few regrets” he has in his career after his attempt to work with Clint Eastwood in a film, following the success of his own 1981 army comedy […]

Ryan Coogler wants to work with Denzel Washington in Black Panther 3 and hopes to work out a deal. In a new interview, Coogler addressed rumors that Washington was in talks to star in the third installment of the Marvel movie. “I’m dying to work with Denzel and I’m hoping we can make that happen. […]

Alan Cumming is reprising his X-Men role of Nightcrawler for Marvel’s upcoming Avengers: Doomsday. After the cast reveal was made on a live stream, the Traitors US host took to social media to express his excitement about returning and share a video of himself practicing his Nightcrawler moves. “Never say never,” Cumming captioned the Instagram […]

This is a nifty indie weekend with a busier and higher profile limited release schedule than we’ve seen in some time. The Ballad of Wallis Island, The Friend, Grand Tour, Viet And Nam, Holy Cow and documentaries The Encampments, which is super timely, and Secret Mall Apartment are peppering theaters in major markets. Many have […]

(Updated with statement from Pride flag ban co-sponsor Rep. Lee) Utah’s governor licked his wounds and moved on quickly from the news that the Sundance Film Festival is leaving the state for Boulder, Colorado in 2027. Just hours after the Robert Redford founded Park City-based shindig revealed it is pulling up stakes and heading to […]

UPDATED at 11:37 a.m. PT to reflect that more than 800 Academy members have now signed the letter, including actors Carey Mulligan, America Ferrera, Edward Norton, Jane Fonda, Pedro Pascal, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Elizabeth Olsen; filmmakers Denis Villeneuve, Michael Moore, Stephen Frears, Abigail Disney, Asif Kapadia, Jay Roach, and Todd Field; composer Carter Burwell; […]

President Donald Trump today signed an executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” The document asserts there has been a “widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.”  Claiming the Biden Administration fostered a “corrosive ideology,” Trump’s order asserts that, […]

Coming up as a TV and not a movie executive finally seems to have caught up to Jennifer Salke at Amazon MGM Studios. Her inability to mesh with the gatekeepers of the James Bond movies might well have sealed her fate. While her exit from the executive suites officially is being regarded as an exit […]